This is huge for game developers looking to sweeten the deal as they break into VR. Unity is already the primary game development software for most game creators with nearly a third of all game creators using the platform as their primary development tool with more than 5 million developers now registered on Unity.

This announcement comes after Epic Games announced its own VR updates to its Unreal Engine platform which it will be demoing at GDC next month.

“Valve and Unity are both dedicated to creating the highest quality VR experiences possible,” said John Riccitiello, CEO Unity Technologies. “That means giving developers every possible chance to succeed, and our collaboration with Valve is designed to do just that.”

A new VR rendering plugin for the platform was also announced which should give devs some more “enhanced fidelity and performance, bringing consumers more realistic experiences,” according to Unity.

“We made many of our Vive demos using Unity, and continue to use it today in VRdevelopment”, said Gabe Newell, Co-Founder and MD, Valve. “Through that process, and in working with VR developers, we found some opportunities to make Unity even more robust and powerful for us and really want to share those benefits with all VR content creators.”

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OverviewUnity Technologies is the creator of a flexible and high-performance end-to-end development platform used to create rich interactive 2D, 3D, VR and AR experiences. Unity's powerful graphics engine and full-featured editor serve as the foundation to develop beautiful games or apps and easily bring them to multiple platforms: mobile devices, home entertainment systems,personal computers, and embedded …